What to Build Your Website On?
I am sure you are familiar with blogging. If you know what blogging is than you most likely know about WordPress.
What makes WordPress so Wonderful?
It isn’t just for blogging anymore.
WordPress is being used more often as a content management system (CMS) for Internet businesses.
Here are some of the things it can be used for:
- Integrating squeeze pages
- Building up a review website
- Creating sales letters with an SEO edge
- Designing a static website with regular content
- Establishing a membership site for passive revenue
- Making a site capable of running your very own affiliate program for products that you created.
There are plenty of content management systems to choose from; Drupal, Joomla, and a number of premium CMS providers. (Side note: premium means “pretty penny”!)
A content management system is really the best way to go for building your website. The biggest reason is the ease of use.
I can build a website for you and would be happy to take on the webmaster roll. Sometimes, that is even the best solution for you and your business. Your time is often better spent on other things. The time involved with building your website, managing, and updating it could be used to create new revenue streams for your Internet business.
Perhaps you prefer to manage updates and add new content after a web designer or webmaster gets you all set up. The beauty of WordPress is that it allows you to do just that. There are plenty of tutorials out there that will show you just how to manage your Wordress website.
Maybe you are the “do it yourself” type. That’s great! I highly recommend building your website using WordPress.
The big positive about the popularity of WordPress is that someone somewhere is always working on something that will make it do another really neat thing. Those “somethings” are plug-ins.
Another plus for being popular is that many 3rd party services such as email auto-responders, shopping carts, and the social networks strive to find ways to play nicely with WordPress. It really is in their best interest to do so.
What’s the reason someone would not want to jump on using WordPress for their website?
I think it is the same reason why many people end up choosing MACs over Windows. Security. When more people use something it becomes a bigger and easier target for those people that write malicious code.
Fortunately though, if you or your webmaster keeps up with the updates of your WordPress website, you can avoid security problems. It is similar to using Windows based PC’s. If you keep up with the security updates and educate yourself on what common threats look like, you can stay safe.